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medicornua

medicornua is the plural of medicornu.

Meaning of medicornu

Noun

medicornu (plural medicornua)

  1. The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain.
    • In man there are three extensions of the cella: cephalic, PRECORNU, ventral, MEDICORNU, and caudal, POSTCORNU; the last is wanting in the sheep as in most other mammals.1893, Burt Green Wilder, Physiology Practicums

Questions about medicornua

What is medicornua the plural of?
Medicornua is the plural of medicornu.

Words near medicornua in the dictionary

  1. medicophobic
  2. medicopsychiatric
  3. medicopsychological
  4. medicoreligious
  5. medicornu
  6. medicornua
  7. medicos
  8. medicosocial
  9. medicostatistical
  10. medicosurgical
  11. medicotechnical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: medicornua (page history and authors); medicornu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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